Word: grownups
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Disney, will need to fork over to renew their contract, which expires in 2005. The two studios now split the profits from Pixar movies, but since Pixar's CGI movies have been grossing nearly twice what the Mouse House's own animated films take in, Jobs wants a more grownup portion of the money...
...these actors, being a kid is a full-time job, with scripts to memorize, tutoring to endure--and all that fan mail. Can they also be ordinary youngsters? Or do they just play them on TV? Duff and Bynes seem to pull it off: nice girls with a grownup sense of proportion. "I pride myself on not being Hollywood," Bynes says. "I could go to the parties and stuff, but for me it's so fake. I know my whole career is based on being perky, but I'm more laid back than people would assume." Duff, when asked about...
...alone. According to the Census Bureau, approximately 13% of currently divorced 50-year-old men and 8% of currently divorced 50-year-old women can be expected to remarry at some point. Witnessing a parent's remarriage--though such unions are increasingly common--can feel awkward, even unnatural, to grownup kids. "As a child, you don't understand the courting years of your parent's life," says Amanda Dow, 31, whose father Wayne Gilstrap started dating two months after her mother died in 1997. In their small town, Pickens, S.C., his romance with Cathy, a divorce locals dubbed "the walking...
...Elizabeth spent the week nurturing familial bonds. She belatedly celebrated her 15th birthday and modeled her brand-new wardrobe for friends and family. But even as she reacquainted herself with conventional teenage life, investigators were worried about the battery of questions they would soon have to ask, broaching such grownup topics as polygamy, sexual assault and religious fanaticism. On Friday evening several thousand people flocked to Liberty Park for a citywide celebration of Elizabeth's return. She did not attend but sent along an autographed poster with the message "I'm the luckiest girl in the world...
...Kirk, he's happy to have come full circle, to be back making something again. And he isn't worried that grownup marketing concerns will make it difficult for him to summon his inner boy. "For me, it's more of an effort getting out of the place where I think like a child," he says. Financial maturity has its upside too: more pocket money to blow on robots, other toys and old woodworking tools on eBay. Not to mention the freedom to create more fantasy worlds. After all, what's the fun in growing...